recent instability

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smbcs.columbia.edu> writes:
> Two days ago, I upgraded to 3.99.18 from 17 April. 
Since then, my laptop
> has frozen once and spontaneously rebooted once.  Has
anyone else seen
> that sort of instability?

I just upgraded two days ago also and the first reboot with
the new
kernel had a hang at boot / device probe time (during or
right after
probing my cmpi sound card).  The previous month-old kernel
had no
such problems.  

As an aside userland didn't compile due to a problem in
/usr.sbin/ndiscvt, and another CVS update the yesterday
produced a
kernel that didn't hang at probe time.

There is also another weirdness where some recent change in
either the
netbsd NFS client code or the openbsd server code caused NFS
exports
to permanently hang when netbsd is viewing a directory
exported on
openbsd with a large number of files (~420) in it.  The only
way to
get that NFS subtree unstuck is to reboot the server side
machine.

Due to the flurry of mozilla, xorg, xpdf security holes I
felt that I
had no choice but to upgrade all the way around.

-wolfgang

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:07:35AM -0700, Wolfgang S.
Rupprecht wrote:
> I just upgraded two days ago also and the first reboot
with the new
> kernel had a hang at boot / device probe time (during
or right after
> probing my cmpi sound card).  The previous month-old
kernel had no
> such problems.  

I think Jared fixed this yesterday.

Martin

I just had my system freeze. No response to pings, usb is
dead, no idea 
if I'm in db since usb keyboards don't work without
disabling pckbdc 
first. In the middle of compiling firefox, downloading an
ISO, and using 
rdesktop. I don't ues IPv6 at all or ipf.

I had xosview running, shortly before the system froze, cpu
usage 
dropped to less than 40%, and the net download stalled. Not
what i'd 
expect while compiling firefox

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smbcs.columbia.edu> writes:
> 
>>Two days ago, I upgraded to 3.99.18 from 17 April. 
Since then, my laptop
>>has frozen once and spontaneously rebooted once. 
Has anyone else seen
>>that sort of instability?
> 
> 
> I just upgraded two days ago also and the first reboot
with the new
> kernel had a hang at boot / device probe time (during
or right after
> probing my cmpi sound card).  The previous month-old
kernel had no
> such problems.  
> 
> As an aside userland didn't compile due to a problem
in
> /usr.sbin/ndiscvt, and another CVS update the yesterday
produced a
> kernel that didn't hang at probe time.
> 
> There is also another weirdness where some recent
change in either the
> netbsd NFS client code or the openbsd server code
caused NFS exports
> to permanently hang when netbsd is viewing a directory
exported on
> openbsd with a large number of files (~420) in it.  The
only way to
> get that NFS subtree unstuck is to reboot the server
side machine.
> 
> Due to the flurry of mozilla, xorg, xpdf security holes
I felt that I
> had no choice but to upgrade all the way around.
> 
> -wolfgang
> 
> 
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> 
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